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Tuesday, 2 September 2008

A bit further with Denton Lee, Langdale

Just received an email from Agnes Ebrey about James Denton Lee's memorial stone in Busk Wood, Langdale. It was sent to her by a third party who continues to look into the stone's origins.

Apparently James' sister, who never married and became a successful hairdresserin Blackpool, paid for a National Trust woodland to be planted and James'memorial to be placed there. She also paid for a seat to be placed in his memoryat Trinity College Cambridge.

So probably more to come in due course. The next thing is clearly to email the archivist at Trinity College, Cambridge for info on James. Watch this space!

4 comments:

Hello Agnes Ebrey here. I have been trying to find you again as I would like to ask for the photo please of Lt Denton Lee. The Museum of the Manchester Regt would love to display it. I came across the Forshaw item the other day not realising Lt Lee was further down the blog. I have forwarded that to the Museum. They greatly appreciate it. I hope you don't mind them using it. I hope you can help with the photo sincerely Agnes Ebrey

A gentle jaunt through a poignant aspect of Cumbria's history.

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Longsleddale sundial & others

There are many war memorials in Cumbria. The United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials at the Imperial War Museum lists over 800 in the county but this is a gross underestimate. There are perhaps two or three thousand commemorating conflicts from the middle ages to Iraq & Afghanistan. They take every imaginable form.

This occasional blog describes some of the the finer points of memorial watching and some of my own thoughts on what they seem to say. Please leave comments; I have learnt a lot from peoples observations and memories.

Memorials are of a specific time - they pose many questions; about the validation of war, of death and remembrance and of ever morphing ideas of community or nationhood.

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Following a rather dizzy hippy life in Northumberland in the 60s when I somehow got a degree in Fine Art I embarked on a career in the civil service which soon died a natural death. After a further period as a restaurateur I went to Lancaster and got a degree in Independent Studies followed by a Master's Degree in Historical Research. Now retired I do what interests me - history! And that means, among other things, war memorials - an excuse to explore the wonderful county of Cumbria; its towns, villages & churches & people.